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Month: March 2006

  • Oversampling in Fyre

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    Despite Fyre 1.0 being “completely done” for a while now, I have to nitpick it occasionally. I recently composed an image which brought out a particularly bad oversampling bug in Fyre. Fyre implements antialiasing using an oversampling technique, much like FSAA on modern video cards. In Fyre 1.0.0, we just chop each pixel into an…

  • Gimp 2.3.7

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    I finally got around to installing the latest development release of Gimp, 2.3.7. It’s definitely worth a try. The menus have been rearranged a bit- a little disconcerting for a long-time Gimp user, but the new layout makes a lot of sense. It’s always nice to see the new splashscreens.. but I’m still a little…

  • Google Local on T-Mobile

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    I was using Google Maps on my phone before it was cool. My little prototype Python application, Pyhole, still gets some use despite the fact that shortly after I got it working Google released their own Google Local Mobile. Why? Google’s client doesn’t work with T-Mobile. At all. Not to mention the cheap “t-zones” plan…